May 19, 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews A Skylit Drive at Welcome To Rockville 2025

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PipemanRadio Interviews A Skylit Drive at Welcome To Rockville 2025 at the Daytona International Speedway.

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Hi, you love them too, Yes, that's true.

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Why were you.

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You Welcome to Rockville? No, North America's largest rock festival

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is finally here. It's the pipe Man here on the

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Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm

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here with a skylet drive nice here at Welcome to Rockville. Yes,

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oh man, did you drive on the speedway plenty times?

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Nice?

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Actually, I think some one of the artists, I won't

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say it live on the air, but he was getting

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chased by the cops already already driving on the speedway.

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Oh.

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So, have you ever played Welcome to Rockville? Because it's

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been I don't think you've played it before it ever?

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Right, No, there's our first one.

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Yeah, so what was what's it like? What's it like

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being here as the artists?

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I'll be honest, you can't ask me that question because

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I leave myself off and I'm a whole different person

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going in.

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I love that you said that, because I talk about

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that all the time, same as a radio person. Once

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that MC goes on, there's a switch in your brain.

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And like everybody thinks that artists are like these super extroverts,

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and really it's exactly what you said when you get

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up on stage, you just go into this zone and

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it's just like you're somebody else. So it's cool hearing

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it from you. And so you guys have like really

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come a long way and you're here again. So tell

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us a little bit for the listeners the story of

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your journey to get here to welcome to Rockville.

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Yeah, I mean, man, it is like going on decades now,

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and then there was just like a resting period for

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a while and then resurface brought it back up or

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like really just focus on new material as well, just

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like trying to continue things moving forward. So that's exciting

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to just continue to build off of everything that's already

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been worked on.

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Yeah, and you kind of evolve, right as musicians. I

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think when you go through those roller coaster rides, you

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get that to the other side, you kind of find

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out who you really are as an artist and how

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you can gel as a band.

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So I'd like to call it you revisit your identity.

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Yeah, it's funny.

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That's why I say about midlife crisis, Like people say,

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midlife crisis is not crisis. It's just you finally become

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you when you don't give a crap what anybody thinks.

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You're not trying to prove anything. Anybody, you're just doing

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you just.

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Focus on making you happy, exactly.

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I wish the whole world would just do that, like.

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And if it's meant to be enjoyed, it'll be enjoyed, exactly.

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And especially in this business if you're a musician, if

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you're not enjoying it, it's the wrong business. You guys,

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have smiles on your face. It seems like Welcome to

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Rockville brought that joy.

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Oh yeah, oh yeah.

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It brings back lots of fun memories and just being

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able to do this type of show. It means a

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lot bringing it back and everything from Warp Tour to

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here and everything, because it is such a different vibe

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doing a festival like this, even compared to Warp Tour,

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it's a totally different feel.

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Does it trip you out that Warp Tour is back?

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Very much?

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So I'm really curious just to see, like if it

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feels like these festivals or if it feels like Warp Tour.

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I know, right, yeah, because Warp Tour I've always said

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it's like a traveling summer camp exactly.

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Yeah, it's even cool as media. So when I used

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to cover Warp Tour. The first year, I was like,

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what do you mean I can't schedule in your views

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ahead time? Like in my head not to that, But

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in my head, I'm like, how the fuck am I

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going to do that?

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And then the first year I did, I'm like, I

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wish all.

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The festivals would do it this way, like took all

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the stress off, all the pressure.

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I don't have to worry about anything.

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I show up, sign up on form and they would like,

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put me in a trail or just bring bands to me.

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It was like, that's easy. Yep.

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Posted a back and forth scheduling it, and it's weird too.

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I always thought, man, it's really tough on the artist

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to show up and not even know what time they're playing.

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Yeah, like Warp Tour was always a whirlwind.

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You show up.

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I mean, you wake up and you don't even know.

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You don't know what your day looks like until you

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get out of your bunk or wherever you went to bed,

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right and you might be first on your stage that day,

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and then you got pressed right after you got to

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make time for catering. Your entire day is planned in

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the instant you open your eyes.

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I don't even know yet if they're doing it the

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same way, it's time around. I'm supposed to probably recover them,

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but I don't know how they're going I wonder if

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they're going to do it the same way or maybe

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like this, like you said.

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Yeah, I mean it seems like the first ones are

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more just festival style like this because standalone dates exactly.

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So what else do you have going on in twenty

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twenty five that the listeners need to know about and

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look out for?

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As I just said before, a new identity to the band.

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We have new music coming out, new tours. We're going

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all over the place for the year.

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Tell us a little bit about the new music.

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Give us a little not what it is, but how

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is it same or different than it's ever been.

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A little more like, how should I say it?

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We're gonna keep things as it used to be with

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today's modern day music style.

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That's a good way to put it, for sure.

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And one story, good or bad through your whole journey

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of music, why you think it would be that you would.

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Remember, oh boy, New Orleans, what happened there two days ago?

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Days ago?

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And what we like to call every show of the tour.

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We just like to call it a practice show, right,

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first show, you know, on the tour. So it's just

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like we don't know what kind of malfunctions we're gonna

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deal with, and that day was just a complete shit.

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Show, and that's to be expected to.

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Yeah, and again, practice show for a reason, right to happen,

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and then then to tab at a place like Rockville.

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No doubt Music's I had a picture? Now, what's your passion?

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One of those like DIY dads Like when I'm home,

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I'm always making something or I don't know it's funny.

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I wasn't. I wasn't handy at all as a kid.

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I just forced myself into it because it's too expensive

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to pay someone else to do it right exactly.

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And do you have something that you absolutely love to

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do to make.

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I definitely like more like wood, like woodworking type stuff.

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Like if somebody asked me to do plumbing, I'm like, no,

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I'm hiring someone electric Nope. Right, But I'm like, if

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it involves wood somewhere around your house, I'll mess with that.

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So what would you say is your favorite project that

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you've done?

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Oh?

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Man, at hire House, I didn't build it, but pretty

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much every room I've done something. It's a lot of

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like accent type stuff and percolas and stuff like that.

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But then again, you know, it's like a passion for me.

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It's fun.

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I like to see other people happy, and I like.

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To have other people bec comfort and enjoy their surroundings.

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See, I loved it.

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I like to hear the other stuff because nobody really

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talks about what's yours.

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This one's a little more interesting for me. So I

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feel like I'm connected to the world. So I'm all

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about the energy. I'm always people watching observing that that's

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how I am. So whatever makes them happy makes me

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happy just seeing them be them kids, other people.

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Just live your life, see, And that's why I always

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say all the time, just be you. There doesn't have

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to be like I don't get so many people that

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like think about things that never affect them in their life,

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about what other people are fucking doing. Okay, Like it

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doesn't even affect your life in any way, sharp or form.

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If it makes the person happy and they're not hurting

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anybody intentionally, who gives a fuck to be blos?

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I think the world is just trying to be too

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perfect nowadays. And the thing is, if you didn't make

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any mistakes that you really live.

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No doubt.

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Like, and I was a teenager in the eighties. I

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thank god I didn't have a there a cell phones

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or internet or no, there's no record of the stupid.

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I'm pretty sure I say that line to my kids,

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to my daughter's at least once a week, like I'm all, like,

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you count your lucky stars that I didn't have a phone,

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so that so that you don't know all the stupid

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shit I did, no doubt.

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And you know what's funny is nowadays people put the

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stupid ship on there on purpose.

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It's what it is. It's a it's a grasp of

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attention thing. Oh no, nodad we didn't have We had

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to do it a different way back in the day.

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And even with music, Okay, come on, let's look at

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the difference. In some ways it's better for you guys

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as musicians, but other ways, I think.

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It's just a lot more work.

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Like I think about being a band back of the eighties,

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and you don't have to do all the work you

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guys gotta do.

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You gotta work way harder.

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Is that a real thing, because I don't think you know,

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with all social media it would have happened either. We

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had there, Yeah, we had in our phone calls. We

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got to go ahead and meet up with said person

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at said time. You missed that, you missed it. There

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is no rescheduling until you call the person back when

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you're home.

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There's a good pointing.

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I love that it gets a little easier as you go.

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I think I grew up in the right era where

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we had to do tours back to back to back

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in order to gain all this.

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Yeah, man just posted.

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About social media on TikTok for us to just be like, oh,

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they call your attention. Now, we're the TikTok band. Now,

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we're the we're in a TikTok band now, but we

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came from a different error.

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See now you're the best of both worlds, correct, because

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it is both worlds. Like I'm a total techie and

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like I remember one day I was calling my door.

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I'm like, some days I just want to drive down

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the road and throw my laptop, iPad and phone out

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the window and keep driving. She's like, Dad, who you came?

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You're more addicted than anybody. I'm like, yeah, but I

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lived there in time. I ain't have all this shit

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and in some ways it was a lot better. It's

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give and take. There's better now and I think the

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evolution is what makes it great. And at least there

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are artists out there that can make music now that

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didn't have that chance before. We had all this stuff

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and a way to connect. So how do your fans?

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How my fans connect to you? Tell them how to

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connect to your socials, website, by your merch because they

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can't listen to my show. And listen by your merch

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because that's the only way you survive, all right.

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Well, well, yeah, I mean, of course the Instagram, Facebook,

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We've got a skylardriveofficial dot com that's where any official

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merchandise is. Yeah, I mean, we definitely plan on having

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new music out this year. That's our biggest focus is

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that rebirth.

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I love it. Can't wait for the new music.

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So everybody's got to definitely connect with you so that

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they can know when it happens and.

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Get it wherever they're gonna get it.

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Absolutely.

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Well, you guys, rock you rocked the Daytona Speedway here

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at Welcome to Rockville, and thanks for being on the

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Adventures of pay Man.

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Thanks for having us, us having us, thank you for

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listening to the adventures of flight Man on W four

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